Did you know that Tufts University had a pioneering role in radio transmissons?
Professor Amos E. Dolbear of Tufts University received a U.S. patent for a wireless telegraph (used to communicate for up to a quarter mile) in March, 1882. His patent blocked Marconi from operatins in the US (until Marconi bought the rights).
Later researchers at Tufts pioneered the use of DeForest's amplifier tube to enable distance transmission of voice/music by radio.
http://www.angelfire.com/nc/whitetho/1916_1XE.ht m
Later establishment of regular broadcasts by 1XE/WGI from Tufts give claims that Tufts had the first radio station in the US with a regular broadcast schedule.
No most of what this person is describing is completely legal and enforcable in the US.
In the US, if you are entitled to a severance package as part of the terms aand conditions of your employment, the employer cannot require you to sign a no-sue agreement at the time of your departure in exchange for this severence since you were already entitled to it. The employee has to offer you something extra. If they try this, the agreement is valueless.
In addition there are a lot of very strict rules covering the form and execution of this agreement, especially if the employer wishes immunity from suit under ADEA. Some of these can be seen at:
http://www.cbia.com/HRBus/EmploymentIssues/Termi na tions/sepagreementsT.htm
My personal opinion is that the worthiness of a society is determined by how it treats it's children.
Distribution of kiddie porn is perhaps the most morally repugnant and pernicious activity that is enabled by the internet. It is illegal in the United States, and if it wasn't I would be ashamed to live here for that reason alone.
If a politically ambitious AG in PA has seized on this issue as a means of ingratiating himself with voters, well, what is wrong with that? Shouldn't the protection of children from this sort of exploitation be an issue that voters should consider when making their choice?
As far as internet carriers being forced to block traffic to kiddie porn sites, well, why not? The technology to block these sites IS available. Shouldn't we use it to protect the most vulnerable people in our society?
As far as issues of whether an ISP is a common carrier and not liable for content, I see that as a different matter. Nobody is suing the ISP for transmitting this data - they are merely requiring the ISP to stop facillitating the distribution of this rot. I would have a very different view if the AG was prosecuting Worldcom because it was distributing kiddie porn.
As far as the issue of erosion of free speach rights goes, that is a problem that affects all of society, not the internet specifically. Erosion of free speach rights needs to be fought at every level. The internet has no special position here.
Cablevision has refused to carry the YES Network since the beginning of the season, resulting in many fans becoming pissed off and a booming demand for satellite service. And yet they still have the balls to run commercials saying how customers need crappy Long Island news channels [news12.com] and boring local programming [metro.tv] instead of a popular sports team.
As far as I am concerned Yankees fans can blow it out their ass. I am a Cablevision subscriber, and am definitely NOT a Yankees Fan. The concept of the YES network trying to force Cablevision to include their channel in the basic package thus making all subscribers, fans or not pay for it is ridiculous, and I support Cablevision's stand 100% on this issue. YES should be a premium channel that is paid for by the fans, not every subscriber.
As for me, I don't use it often, but occasionally I find it useful especially when writing code in a language that supports automatic type conversion and a variant data type.
My reaction to that would be that the language is forcing work that should be automated (by strong type checking etc.) on the programmer. It seems to me that if you are using a programming environment where Hungarian Notation is useful, you should perhaps step back and consider alternative tools.
That's some poor logic. Windows nor Linux implies anything bouncing the server or the EULA that comes with it.
Empirical evidence and actual fact show otherwise.
On a Linux box the ONLY reason you ever need to bounce the server for software maintenance is a kernel upgrade.I have never had to bounce a production Linux server to fix a security problem.
As far as EULA changes, I have NEVER seen a patch from a Linux or GNU project that has required you to accept a EULA, let alone a EULA change, while I routinely see it with MS products.
More fundamentally, without source code you are forced to accept your patch and the EULA that comes with it. With source code you are free to fix the offending program yourself if you object to a EULA change.
As far as bouncing the server, Microsoft embeds http services in the kernel. If they patch their http services, it means bouncing the entire server . This is not the case in a Linux environment. In addition in the Linux environment it is much easier to keep the old software version around in case the patch has problems.
Seems it is true...the security of your web server depends on how effective you are at keeping up to date on patches, no matter if you are running Windows or Linux.
I'd agree with that statement - the difference being that with the Windows patch you may need to restart your server (bad), and you may have to swallow a new EULA (could be VERY bad).
The best time to buy most technology goods is after the manufacturer discontinues the model you want. For example, the Minolta Dimage 7 digital camera came out at a price near $2000. It now sells on uBid for $600-700.
PC's are a little tougher because of their realtively short lifetime, but the rule there is to plot performance vs. price for the part you are looking at.When you do so it will immdiately be obvious that there is a 'knee' where the bang per buck drops off remarkably.
I read recentely that if you shoot medium format, to equal the quality digitally, you would have to have a camera that is 27 mega-pixes.
Popular Photography did a study where they reached the conclusion that a 35 mm camera with ASA 100 film on a tripod with a good lens can produce an image equivalent to 40 megapixels. That puts medium format up around 200 megapixels.
An 8x10 print using high quality equipment has EASILY 1000x1000 DPI resolution (probably more like 2000x2000). To take advantage of that you need something like 80 - 320 megapixels in your image. This is why a 35 mm film camera doesn't produce good 8x10's, while a medium format negative does. Digital photos and quality 8x10 prints? Not there, or even close yet.
With the advent of new cameras in the 10+ Megapixel range, the bet is going to be on digital.
Digital offers a lot of convenience, but the fact of life is that a 35 SLR film camera with a good lens gives you the equivalent of a 40 megapixel digital camera. Don't forget that 10+ megapixel SLR digital also carries a $6000 price tag. And wedding photographers normally use medium format cameras with 6x7cm negatives - to match the resolution of that large negative with digital you are looking at 200 megapixels.
Sure, you can have your friends with digital cameras take wedding pictures, but you are deluding yourself if you think you will get the quality a professional photographer will give you. A prosumer digital camera today offers a single zoom lens and 5 megapizels per shot. This is well below what a good 35 mm film camera with interchangable lens is capable of, and not even in the same universe as that Bronica or Rolliflex medium format camera used by the pro. Not only that, but the professional knows what poses, lighting, framing, exposure, film and so on to use. Not to mention the simple fact that in photography the craft is in the making of the negative, but the real art and skill is in the production of the print.
The fact is that the level of skill and equipment required to produce that color corrected perfectly framed razor sharp 8x10 is not going to be available unless you hire a pro. And that pro has a family to feed.
If you want open source, i.e. the negatives or high res scans, you can probably negotiate that with a photographer. But be prepared to pay a fair price for that, equivalent to what the photographer would normally net from selliing the prints and albums to all the relatives.
One of the things that is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE with Microsoft is that they sneak significant EULA changes into their updates.
Sure, they release a patch, weeks after the exploit is reported. You can argue that the delay gives MS time to test. Maybe. But these EULA changes on patches makes it 100% certain that I will NOT run a Microsoft operating system.
So I should limit myself to design in the areas that are supported by all of those browsers only?
If you look at the charts with an open mind, you can see quite clearly that there are large areas of compatability with Netscape 4.x and more modern browsers. The bad actor is IE 3, not Netscape 4 as you stated in your previous message.
If you really do have a client base that really requires you maintain support for IE 3, you have my sympathies. But the reality is that IE 3 accounts for less than 0.1% of web traffic today. Most stats sites aren't even tracking this browser any more. It simply does not make sense to be writing IE 3 code when the same code causes problems with the other 99.9% of your users.
Myself, I work as a web programmer at an multimedia agency, and we have not had a single client ask for IE 3 compatability for 3 years now. For two years we have been building professional quality sites using CSS that are compatable with all post IE 3 browsers using HTML 4.01 strict with a very small number of tweeks for Netscape 4.x. Eventually I imagine we will drop Netscape 4.x compatability, but the fact is that right now it only causes us minor problems.
At this point if we had a client that mandated IE 3 compatability, we would build a separate set of pages and charge the client accordingly.
Zeldman, why don't you drive on down to friendly South Carolina, and help me upgrade all the teachers, principals and parents from Netscape 4.02 or somewhere around there to a browser that doesn't rely on the font and table tag to get decent layout.
Give me a break. Netscape 4.x supports CSS. You can easily write a HTML 4.01 strict doctype page that works in Netscape 4 WITHOUT A SINGLE FONT TAG. The variations from HTML 4.01 that are needed to support browsers back to Netscape 4 are TRIVIAL.
But I thought you could patent the same idea over and over, modifying it slightly. And you were only infringing upon a particular patent if you followed it exactly.
You (and almost everyone else commenting on this topic) should read a primer on what constitutes a patentable invention.
After I read that I article I also came away with the impression it was highly biased. Nowhere does it describe some of the significant advantages that Java has over C# such as checked exceptions, inner classes, class granularity reflection, a far better collections implementation and so on.
A mixture of chlorine gas and weak brine called the anolyte leaves the cell on one side, and the caustic soda (NaOH) and hydrogen gas mixture called the catholyte leaves on the other.
That depends on the physical configuration of the electrochemical cell, If all you have is a cathode and anode stuck in a salt water solution, the chlorine and NaOH will mix after they are formed and you will end up with hypo. If you have a cell with with some means of keeping the alkali separate from the chlorine, you will get the two seperately.
Most small disenfectant cells mix both and you get hypo. Larger scale clor-alkali production is done in one of three types of cell, mercury amalgam cathode, asbestos diaphram, or permselective membrane cell. In the mercury almalgam cell you actually get a solution of sodium metal im mercury as a result of the cathode reaction - the almalgam is then reacted with water to recover the NaOH. In a diaphram cell you have a permiable asbestos diaphram separating the cathode from the anode, and in the premselective membrane you have a fluropolyomer doped with anionic groups that allow transport of sodium ions from the anolyte to the catholyte chambers. Each type of cell has it's own economic and product quality characteristics. The permselective membrane cell is replacing the other types over time because of the toxicity issues with mercury and asbestos. In addition to these details, the materials of construction of the anode are quite important. Since the anode is in the presence of elemental chorine gas under wet conditions it must be made from a very refactory material. Usually this is titanium with a small amount of palladium to prevent stress corrosion cracking, and a catalytic coating, normally either platinum-iridium, or ruthenium oxide.
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Did you know that Tufts University had a pioneering role in radio transmissons?
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Professor Amos E. Dolbear of Tufts University received a U.S. patent for a wireless telegraph (used to communicate for up to a quarter mile) in March, 1882. His patent blocked Marconi from operatins in the US (until Marconi bought the rights).
Later researchers at Tufts pioneered the use of DeForest's amplifier tube to enable distance transmission of voice/music by radio.
http://www.angelfire.com/nc/whitetho/1916_1XE.h
Later establishment of regular broadcasts by 1XE/WGI from Tufts give claims that Tufts had the first radio station in the US with a regular broadcast schedule.
http://www.bostonradio.org/radio/wgi.html
There also was all sorts of problems with the election that the media dug up, but there were on both sides, and not that severe.
Not to mention that the independent reviews concluded that Bush actually did win the plurality of the votes.
No most of what this person is describing is completely legal and enforcable in the US.
i na tions/sepagreementsT.htm
In the US, if you are entitled to a severance package as part of the terms aand conditions of your employment, the employer cannot require you to sign a no-sue agreement at the time of your departure in exchange for this severence since you were already entitled to it. The employee has to offer you something extra. If they try this, the agreement is valueless.
In addition there are a lot of very strict rules covering the form and execution of this agreement, especially if the employer wishes immunity from suit under ADEA. Some of these can be seen at:
http://www.cbia.com/HRBus/EmploymentIssues/Term
That's 161 dollars more than I got for any of my 12 patents.
Most of what you are describing is illegal in the US, which tends to offer less legal protection than most countries.
The fact is that you need to see a lawyer. Your employer is trying to bully you, and there is no way you should let them take advantage of you.
My personal opinion is that the worthiness of a society is determined by how it treats it's children.
Distribution of kiddie porn is perhaps the most morally repugnant and pernicious activity that is enabled by the internet. It is illegal in the United States, and if it wasn't I would be ashamed to live here for that reason alone.
If a politically ambitious AG in PA has seized on this issue as a means of ingratiating himself with voters, well, what is wrong with that? Shouldn't the protection of children from this sort of exploitation be an issue that voters should consider when making their choice?
As far as internet carriers being forced to block traffic to kiddie porn sites, well, why not? The technology to block these sites IS available. Shouldn't we use it to protect the most vulnerable people in our society?
As far as issues of whether an ISP is a common carrier and not liable for content, I see that as a different matter. Nobody is suing the ISP for transmitting this data - they are merely requiring the ISP to stop facillitating the distribution of this rot. I would have a very different view if the AG was prosecuting Worldcom because it was distributing kiddie porn.
As far as the issue of erosion of free speach rights goes, that is a problem that affects all of society, not the internet specifically. Erosion of free speach rights needs to be fought at every level. The internet has no special position here.
Cablevision has refused to carry the YES Network since the beginning of the season, resulting in many fans becoming pissed off and a booming demand for satellite service. And yet they still have the balls to run commercials saying how customers need crappy Long Island news channels [news12.com] and boring local programming [metro.tv] instead of a popular sports team.
As far as I am concerned Yankees fans can blow it out their ass. I am a Cablevision subscriber, and am definitely NOT a Yankees Fan. The concept of the YES network trying to force Cablevision to include their channel in the basic package thus making all subscribers, fans or not pay for it is ridiculous, and I support Cablevision's stand 100% on this issue. YES should be a premium channel that is paid for by the fans, not every subscriber.
As for me, I don't use it often, but occasionally I find it useful especially when writing code in a language that supports automatic type conversion and a variant data type.
My reaction to that would be that the language is forcing work that should be automated (by strong type checking etc.) on the programmer. It seems to me that if you are using a programming environment where Hungarian Notation is useful, you should perhaps step back and consider alternative tools.
That's some poor logic. Windows nor Linux implies anything bouncing the server or the EULA that comes with it.
Empirical evidence and actual fact show otherwise.
On a Linux box the ONLY reason you ever need to bounce the server for software maintenance is a kernel upgrade.I have never had to bounce a production Linux server to fix a security problem.
As far as EULA changes, I have NEVER seen a patch from a Linux or GNU project that has required you to accept a EULA, let alone a EULA change, while I routinely see it with MS products.
More fundamentally, without source code you are forced to accept your patch and the EULA that comes with it. With source code you are free to fix the offending program yourself if you object to a EULA change.
As far as bouncing the server, Microsoft embeds http services in the kernel. If they patch their http services, it means bouncing the entire server . This is not the case in a Linux environment. In addition in the Linux environment it is much easier to keep the old software version around in case the patch has problems.
Seems it is true...the security of your web server depends on how effective you are at keeping up to date on patches, no matter if you are running Windows or Linux.
I'd agree with that statement - the difference being that with the Windows patch you may need to restart your server (bad), and you may have to swallow a new EULA (could be VERY bad).
The best time to buy most technology goods is after the manufacturer discontinues the model you want. For example, the Minolta Dimage 7 digital camera came out at a price near $2000. It now sells on uBid for $600-700.
PC's are a little tougher because of their realtively short lifetime, but the rule there is to plot performance vs. price for the part you are looking at.When you do so it will immdiately be obvious that there is a 'knee' where the bang per buck drops off remarkably.
I read recentely that if you shoot medium format, to equal the quality digitally, you would have to have a camera that is 27 mega-pixes.
Popular Photography did a study where they reached the conclusion that a 35 mm camera with ASA 100 film on a tripod with a good lens can produce an image equivalent to 40 megapixels. That puts medium format up around 200 megapixels.
An 8x10 print using high quality equipment has EASILY 1000x1000 DPI resolution (probably more like 2000x2000). To take advantage of that you need something like 80 - 320 megapixels in your image. This is why a 35 mm film camera doesn't produce good 8x10's, while a medium format negative does. Digital photos and quality 8x10 prints? Not there, or even close yet.
With the advent of new cameras in the 10+ Megapixel range, the bet is going to be on digital.
Digital offers a lot of convenience, but the fact of life is that a 35 SLR film camera with a good lens gives you the equivalent of a 40 megapixel digital camera. Don't forget that 10+ megapixel SLR digital also carries a $6000 price tag. And wedding photographers normally use medium format cameras with 6x7cm negatives - to match the resolution of that large negative with digital you are looking at 200 megapixels.
According to RMS, that's not even a valid phrase in the English language.
Then why does he apply a strict copyright and license on every bit of code coming out of the FSF?
Sure, you can have your friends with digital cameras take wedding pictures, but you are deluding yourself if you think you will get the quality a professional photographer will give you. A prosumer digital camera today offers a single zoom lens and 5 megapizels per shot. This is well below what a good 35 mm film camera with interchangable lens is capable of, and not even in the same universe as that Bronica or Rolliflex medium format camera used by the pro. Not only that, but the professional knows what poses, lighting, framing, exposure, film and so on to use. Not to mention the simple fact that in photography the craft is in the making of the negative, but the real art and skill is in the production of the print.
The fact is that the level of skill and equipment required to produce that color corrected perfectly framed razor sharp 8x10 is not going to be available unless you hire a pro. And that pro has a family to feed.
If you want open source, i.e. the negatives or high res scans, you can probably negotiate that with a photographer. But be prepared to pay a fair price for that, equivalent to what the photographer would normally net from selliing the prints and albums to all the relatives.
no clicking through EULAs
One of the things that is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE with Microsoft is that they sneak significant EULA changes into their updates.
Sure, they release a patch, weeks after the exploit is reported. You can argue that the delay gives MS time to test. Maybe. But these EULA changes on patches makes it 100% certain that I will NOT run a Microsoft operating system.
His point, nitwit, is that there are more microsoft boxes than linux ones.
Jackass, there are more Linux boxes running as webservers than there are Windows boxes running as webservers.
Depends on your printer. I've got a Epson 3000 which I routinely print 22x17 on. I need about 6M pixels to get a good print in this size
Why release a product 4 times better than your competitors
It's not 4x better. There are already rumors of other 10M+ cameras.
The resolution of the human eye is not the issue. The issue with cameras is always how big you can blow up the image and have it still look good.
So I should limit myself to design in the areas that are supported by all of those browsers only?
If you look at the charts with an open mind, you can see quite clearly that there are large areas of compatability with Netscape 4.x and more modern browsers. The bad actor is IE 3, not Netscape 4 as you stated in your previous message.
If you really do have a client base that really requires you maintain support for IE 3, you have my sympathies. But the reality is that IE 3 accounts for less than 0.1% of web traffic today. Most stats sites aren't even tracking this browser any more. It simply does not make sense to be writing IE 3 code when the same code causes problems with the other 99.9% of your users.
Myself, I work as a web programmer at an multimedia agency, and we have not had a single client ask for IE 3 compatability for 3 years now. For two years we have been building professional quality sites using CSS that are compatable with all post IE 3 browsers using HTML 4.01 strict with a very small number of tweeks for Netscape 4.x. Eventually I imagine we will drop Netscape 4.x compatability, but the fact is that right now it only causes us minor problems.
At this point if we had a client that mandated IE 3 compatability, we would build a separate set of pages and charge the client accordingly.
Zeldman, why don't you drive on down to friendly South Carolina, and help me upgrade all the teachers, principals and parents from Netscape 4.02 or somewhere around there to a browser that doesn't rely on the font and table tag to get decent layout.
Give me a break. Netscape 4.x supports CSS. You can easily write a HTML 4.01 strict doctype page that works in Netscape 4 WITHOUT A SINGLE FONT TAG. The variations from HTML 4.01 that are needed to support browsers back to Netscape 4 are TRIVIAL.
Zeldman is RIGHT.
But I thought you could patent the same idea over and over, modifying it slightly. And you were only infringing upon a particular patent if you followed it exactly.
You (and almost everyone else commenting on this topic) should read a primer on what constitutes a patentable invention.
Here is one:
http://arti.indiana.edu/ott/inventors/034a.html
After I read that I article I also came away with the impression it was highly biased. Nowhere does it describe some of the significant advantages that Java has over C# such as checked exceptions, inner classes, class granularity reflection, a far better collections implementation and so on.
A mixture of chlorine gas and weak brine called the anolyte leaves the cell on one side, and the caustic soda (NaOH) and hydrogen gas mixture called the catholyte leaves on the other.
That depends on the physical configuration of the electrochemical cell, If all you have is a cathode and anode stuck in a salt water solution, the chlorine and NaOH will mix after they are formed and you will end up with hypo. If you have a cell with with some means of keeping the alkali separate from the chlorine, you will get the two seperately.
Most small disenfectant cells mix both and you get hypo. Larger scale clor-alkali production is done in one of three types of cell, mercury amalgam cathode, asbestos diaphram, or permselective membrane cell. In the mercury almalgam cell you actually get a solution of sodium metal im mercury as a result of the cathode reaction - the almalgam is then reacted with water to recover the NaOH. In a diaphram cell you have a permiable asbestos diaphram separating the cathode from the anode, and in the premselective membrane you have a fluropolyomer doped with anionic groups that allow transport of sodium ions from the anolyte to the catholyte chambers. Each type of cell has it's own economic and product quality characteristics. The permselective membrane cell is replacing the other types over time because of the toxicity issues with mercury and asbestos. In addition to these details, the materials of construction of the anode are quite important. Since the anode is in the presence of elemental chorine gas under wet conditions it must be made from a very refactory material. Usually this is titanium with a small amount of palladium to prevent stress corrosion cracking, and a catalytic coating, normally either platinum-iridium, or ruthenium oxide.